Perhaps Time Away from the Computer Would be a Good Thing

• Item 1: Alarm goes off. Groggy. "Hmm, what time is it?" Look to the upper-right of the screen. 7:30 am. Wake up a little more. Realize I'm in bed. Realize there was no screen. Realize I'm sitting at the computer, working, even in my freakin' dreams.

• Item 2: Composing a many-point reply email. I finished the message except for one point I needed to think about some more, so I just commented it out and compiled the email.

Except, of course, you don't "compile" email. They just get sent. Right away. So my recipient received a reply with one response point being represented by a mere sentence fragment.

Bonus: it was proceeded by a //.

Update: Darrin Cardani writes:

Oh man, I totally know how it goes. I can't tell you how many times when I can't find my keys, I attempt to type Cmd-F. Seriously! It's disturbing.

Peter da Silva writes:

I was having a hell of a problem once, working on some PDP-11 assembly code. I couldn't open my eyes to work on it, because the code I was working on was the device drivers for my eyelids, and I couldn't get them open until I'd fixed the bug.

A dream, of course.

And I spotted another one today: I read "Oxford University" as "Hexadecimal 'ford' University". That's a new low for me...

Update 2: Rainer Brockerhoff comments.

Update 3: Ralph Pöllath writes:

In another life, I used to be a Photoshop professional, and I remember reaching for the clone stamp while cleaning up my appartment..

Friday, June 24, 2005
12:00 AM